ASI is a ministry
that's networking all these
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different ministries
together with the church.
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Being involved with
ASI meeting other people.
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ASI convention is an
excellent opportunity just
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a great
opportunity. In ASI there is a
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particular fellowship,
ASI is really the stamp,
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it's the glue that holds
all the ministries together.
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Welcome to ASI
video magazine I am Dan
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Houghton. Today we
are going to meet ASI
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members that are
living out the ASI motto,
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sharing Christ in
the market place. God has
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called each of us to
serve him and to bring
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others to him, no
matter what our job it is
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our business to do
God's will, that is what
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ASI is all about.
Manuel and Esther Alva are
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physicians near Chicago,
Illinois, they have made
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witnessing a central
part of their work. They
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regularly pray with
patients and have had
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many opportunities to
talk about God with both
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patients and
coworkers. Let's hear more about
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their remarkable
story. This is a practice that
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tends primarily
to Spanish speaking
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patients, for Hispanic
patients and family comes
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from a Latin country
and the kids are born here
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and they start going
to school, there is always
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the economy, even
larger than in a regular family
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that always lives in
this country. About values,
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about habits and the
way the older generation
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relates to younger
generation and there is
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always a break up of a
family. So there is ample
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opportunity to listen
to this patients bringing
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their problems, bringing
their complaints and just
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finding with few
questions about what do
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they do for a living;
how many people are in the
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house; how many
old adult children
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still live in the
house and immediately you can
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start seeing on the
faces of people, worry,
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tension, because
there is a problem and
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and we just poke a
little bit there and they
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start telling their
life stories and some of them
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cry and some of them
wish there was a God as
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they used to know
before they came here, could
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solve these problems and
its; its, if you just let
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him speak and just tell
them about yes, there is a
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God. Yes, he cares
for me, yes I believe in
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him, yes I had the
same problems that you are
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having or similar
problems. I can sympathize
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with that My
practice is quite different
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I see mostly
inpatients who are bedridden
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sometimes even before
coming to the hospital and
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many of them are
on supportive machines
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and care and there is
not such a good opportunity
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for a meaningful interaction
but sometimes the Lord
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allows us to pray with
a patient and show to them
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that care and compassion
We have opportunities to
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pray with most of these
people. Not only myself I
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mean the medical
assistants and nurse that
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works here, they all are
listening and trying to see
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what the Holy Spirit
tells them about what to say,
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how to intervene in
each patient's case. So that
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facility has allowed the
clinical work. People are
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more open with their
symptoms; they tend to
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follow indications or
suggestions for better
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diets for better care,
they are very unlikely to be
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upset with us, I have
to credit my staff for that
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Mostly my major
opportunities are with my
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coworkers, the nurses,
the physicians, specially I
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had the opportunity to
work giving some health
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education to the staff in
the area of house keeping,
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most of them are Spanish
speaking and they are in a
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second class if we
would say, second class in the
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hospital setting
and sometimes we as
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physicians and
professionals walk by
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and not even say hi,
good morning to this person
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who is so dedicatedly
cleaning the surroundings
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of the hospital and
that is something we regret,
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but they feel included
and notice important that
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when you say hi to
them and acknowledge. Well,
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through several circumstances
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I was able to make
connections with their
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director; their
department director and we held
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52 sessions in one
full year of health
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education in different
topics, I used the book
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written by Hans Diehl
and it's so simplified that
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anyone can understand. I
have not seen Thracian in
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the sense of Bible
studies but only he knows the
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seed is there, we're
called to plant the seed or to
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harvest according to
what the Lord presents to us
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Actually here in
our office, our staff is
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Seventh-Day Adventist
except our receptionist.
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She is a wonderful
Catholic lady, but she
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wanted to learn more
about the Bible and our
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children and children
of our manager come and
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work here and they
actually like to interact
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with patients and one
of them said hey we have
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new beginnings here,
how do we show this to look,
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the receptionist they
have, the woman was stunned
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with the series.
Some other workers of the
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hospital were also
interested in coming
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and seeing that, I
remember that she said may be we
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will see Bible studies
here but I think they are
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coming, we just
have realized this year
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I think about my
responsibilities as a
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parent and trying
to combine being mother
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and also a professional
and sometimes I look
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back and I say oh how
many years did I sort of
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wasted not being the
best mother while I was trying
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to get my training, but
then there is consolation
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in the Lord especially
in this gatherings, ASI
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gathering when I see
my children being a used,
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being active, doing things
and I realize oh they have
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Jesus in their heart
too even though I don't feel
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responsible for being
the one who trained them and
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taught and did
everything spiritually for them
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And I can tell you
wonderful experiences
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that God has given me
through ASI and through
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the things I have
learned through ASI, experiences
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in my family, coming
back to love my mother
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again; my mother and I
were distanced for many
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years and she ended up
having colon cancer. I am
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a gastroenterologist
and we don't talk on the
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phones often, I mean we
didn't back then and I am
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known to ask, she was
just falling ill slowly. She
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was in a lot of denial,
she is a very strong person
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but God was working,
even ten years before that
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he saw to it that we
will meet ten years later with
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this diagnosis,
with forgiveness, with
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reconciliation and if
I hadn't been prepared
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spiritually and mentally
by all the material I heard
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at ASI, I couldn't see
myself turning back and
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being a different
person. So, God is using ASI
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powerfully, not only
to spread the message from
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Christ in the market
place but to change everyone
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of the people that
walk in and open himself or
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herself and say God
here I am, use me. God says I
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can use you, let me work
on you first, while I work
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on you, you can work
for me, it's wonderful. God
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doesn't wait until
we graduate, you know he
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starts using us right
away, changed us, changes us
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and uses us,
little as we can do, as
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much as we can
do. India was quite an
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experience, we
really didn't know what to
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expect we would have
liked to do medical work
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but the setting where
we were doing at this visit
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was mainly evangelistic.
So my husband was in
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charge of the sermons,
preaching I did the help
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lectures and we
were blessed to have our
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youngest son Ray who
was at the time 12 doing
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the children's story
and that was a good, I don't
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have words to say
very good experience and
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there were 400 souls
baptized in our group,
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in our group. And it
was not our doing we were
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just their instruments.
One of the physicians
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across the hall is
an orthopedist, he is a
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Hindu orthopedist
and when we went to
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India somebody in the
hospital wanted us to you
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know they learned
that we went there and they
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asked us what do want,
what do you, I said that
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we want to do some
health teaching and some
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evangelism too, we want
to tell people about God
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and they were that's
interesting, do you have
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a picture that we can
put in our newsletter for our
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physicians and my wife
and I had a picture and
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my son Ray had a
picture with our Indian garb and
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we sent it to the
hospital here. It's not an
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Adventist hospital,
but they put a picture
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there and they put
physicians from our
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hospital visit India and
they put a little article
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there. So this doctor
read that and he one day he
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was reading this and he
looked at me coming into
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the lounge and he said
now you are not Indian,
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you are not
Pakistani, you are not Middle
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Eastern, you are
Hispanic. What were
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you doing in India? I
said, Dr. Ray, we were
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there because we
love God and we wanted to
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help people. And he
said so what church you
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belong to, I said
we're Seventh-Day Adventists,
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that the chapel in this
hospital is the Seventh-
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Day Adventist pastor, he
is from India also. So he
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comes up to Ray, he is
still kind of confused, he's
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thinking what kind of
people go from this part
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of the world to the
other part of the world and he
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met the pastor in the
hallway and he says look
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at this picture, he
says, these people are not from
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India. These people
tell me they're Seventh-Day
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Adventists and the
pastor said well so am I. And he
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said this is wonderful
he said, do you do any other
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things in India.
And Pastor Benjamin told
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him yes we run orphanages,
hospitals and this man
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said for years I
had a dream to help an
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orphanage in India,
just tell me more about this.
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So Pastor
Benjamin showed him some
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pictures in the Internet
of all the orphanages and
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Dr. Ray he is a seasoned
orthopedist, who is about
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to retire. And he was
one of the first operating
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knees laparoscopy here
so, he said I need to help
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your church and
Pastor Benjamin said what do
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you mean? He said
well you can use some money
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for your church and he
said well let me see how
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can we channel that
and he called the general
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conference and
sure enough they set a
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department of channels
contributions and Dr. Ray
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came and said okay
he wrote a check for the
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Church. We were awestruck
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and then he comes
every Sabbath, he goes
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to his office there
are no patients there that
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attend to any of these
clinics from the Sabbath,
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but he comes every
Sabbath and he just starts
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from middle, he sees
the Bible lessons or the
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health lectures that we
are giving and he just goes
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right on, right on. And
he told me the other day, you
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go to Mexico every
month I know because I
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got to look for you,
I have to ask you a few
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questions and your
staff tell me you're gone, so
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you went to Mexico
every month, tell me what do
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you do there. So, tell
him I will go to my school, I
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will do this and that
and he says I want to go to
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your school, I think
it's my karma he said, it's my
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destiny my karma to
help the Seventh-Day
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Adventist church and I
said yes that's your karma.
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And we have kind
of slowed down on this
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well I think we have
the right set up for him to
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visit us next February
in Matamoros and there is
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another physician
there; a graduate, we're gonna
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work together, they
both do knees, knee surgery.
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So I don't know what
else God is gonna do with us,
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tell me God is not
done with me, so everything
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something else happens my heart
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just, just melts down.
What an inspiring story
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people willing to let
God use them to reach others,
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being a member of ASI
it's been my privilege to
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meet people like
Manuel and Esther Alva, people
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who are excited about
sharing Jesus Christ, both
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at home and around the
world. If you would like
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to be an ASI member,
give us a call at 301-680-6450
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or visit www.asiministries.org.
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ASI is a service organization
that spans the globe.
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Many of the other
Adventists world divisions
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have established an
ASI of their own with
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local chapters in
numerous countries.
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These organizations
function much like ASI in
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North America with
conventions, lay-led
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projects and more. If
you are from outside North
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America I encourage you
to get in touch with ASI
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in your area, for
more information visit
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www.asiministries.org.
There is a passion that is
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infectious at ASI.
Everybody is so passion
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about Jesus. It's
a blessing every time
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just to rub shoulders
with people that are excited.
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If you have a passion
for Jesus, you are going to
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find no place that I
know of where you will find
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more passion by more
people than being at ASI.
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The quiet hour is
an ASI member ministry
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involved in a wide
variety of outreached projects
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around the world,
including evangelistic
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programs, construction
projects, medical clinics
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and more. Over their
70 year history the quite
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hour has been active in
a 140 countries and each
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year they send 400
Evangelism teams to
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numerous sites around
the world. Let's see how they
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are sharing Christ in
a world wide market place
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Greetings everyone.
It's your quiet hour family
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coming by for an half
hour of good faith. The
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Quiet Hour program
is dedicated to building
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faith in the hearts
of all the listeners.
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In 1949, the quiet
hour launched a television
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program, the very
first Seventh-Day Adventist
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program to appear on
this new medium. It's said
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appeared to be a
living room with a sofa and
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coffee table, book
shelves and movie screen for
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showing graphics,
not much has changed.
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I was impacted at an
early age, growing up right
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within the media of
television when it was at
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a very at it's
earliest stages in the San
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Francisco bay area,
when there are only 17000
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television sets in
the whole bay area. Grand
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dad loved to tell
stories and so I was captivated
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by his story telling and
as I grew older I was drawn
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to what he was doing. I
noticed from an early age
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he had a passion; he had
a love for the Lord Jesus
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Christ. And that
instilled in me a
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desire to serve Jesus.
The quiet hour started out
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as a radio program and
it was sort of like the
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quiet hour with God,
but you know when you have
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a quiet hour with God
each day it gives you a
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burden, it gives you a mission,
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it gives you a sense
of purpose and the quiet
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hour today is looking
for ways to help people
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fulfill that
purpose, to reach out and do
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something about
what that quiet hour has
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put in their hearts.
It branched into mission
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projects at an early
stage back in the 50s, there
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was a desire to help
sponsor airplanes, but our first
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major thrust for airplanes
actually took place in the
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early 60s. And so the
quiet hour has been know
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in many, many different
countries today. You go
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to some countries the
quiet hour is known for
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jungle chapels. Over
the years we've probably
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funded over 3400
jungle chapels and counting,
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jeeps, tractors,
motorboat launches, you know
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medical launches
to schools, to medical
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clinics, to bicycles
and motorcycles and funding
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several million
Bibles that have gone to many
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different countries,
actually we have been
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working in over a 135
countries over these years
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but the greatest
things that has been going on
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that is most exciting
has been the evangelism.
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Of all the things
that my wife and I have
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experienced in
ministry and I've been a youth
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pastor, I've been a
teacher. The most life
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changing experience
we had was when we took
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young people, high
school kids, college
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students during spring
break, during the summer
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on short term mission
trips, building orphanages
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or schools or
churches and we saw more life
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changing evidence in
that week and a half or ten
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days then in a year
of church. And we came to
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realize that was one of
the really important elements
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of ministry that so
many young people don't
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experience. And so
as a director of youth
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ministries and young
adult ministries here at
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the quiet hour, our main
focus is to make and give
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opportunities for young
people, college students,
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retirees, we have people
of all ages with us, but to
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get them out of
their comfort zone and to
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experience a mission
adventure that really
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wraps the whole gospel
into a package of as you
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do on a one of the least
of these give them unto me.
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Every year we send out
close to 600 teams into;
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in different countries
about 46 countries a year
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and it's my responsibility,
I get the privilege of
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helping these teams get
ready to go on their trips.
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I know from 2008 we
actually sent out 667
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individuals went out,
that equates to that about it
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was little over
400 individual teams.
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The way that we are able
to accomplish so much with
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the dollars that our donors
provide is through the use
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of volunteers. We,
the bulk of the evangelism
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that is accomplished
by the Quite Hour is
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accomplished through the
use of lay volunteers who
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participate in
mission trips that we send out
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every year. In our
youth missions projects
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really have four
components to it. Yes,
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we do evangelism, we
try to build either a
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church or a school,
a very strong medical
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component and
then we also have the
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element of
children's ministries as well.
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The volunteers are the
future of the Quite Hour
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and we have noticed
over the last year or two or
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three an increasing
demand for people to
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participate in mission
trips. They are beginning
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to see the value of
that more and more people are
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being interested in
being part of spreading the
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gospel personally and
the Quite Hour gives them an
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opportunity to do that,
it gives them an opportunity
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to do that in a low
risk environment. They can be
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part of a team at any
level, they can be just a
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support staff who goes
along and washes dishes.
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They can be a
preacher who goes and speaks
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before a group of a 100
or 500 or 2000. They can do
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a children's program;
so there are plenty of
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opportunities for
volunteers, they can be
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any age we have had
preachers as young as 11
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and as old as 80. As a
member of ASI I feel like
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our responsibility is
not so much to see what can
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ASI do for us, but what
we as a member of ASI can
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do for the other members of ASI.
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The Quite Hour
benefits and the Quite Hour
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contributes, but as
an organization, as a
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ministry we see ourselves
as connecting people who
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would like to do
something for God either
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they can go out on a
trip with us to some place in
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the world. Or if may be
they can't do that they can
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contribute funds to
make it possible for others
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to go out. I
believe that and I feel that
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the Quite Hour's role
with ASI is to help the
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ASI members grow
and become more involved
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with evangelism whether
here in the United states
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or overseas and
obviously we are more
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concentrated, our work
is more overseas so we can
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get them to you know
partner with us. Many of
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the ASI members
like Gospel outreach, we
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partnership with
Gospel Outreach, Adventist
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World Aviation, we are
partners with them, many
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of the ASI members we
do partnership with them
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to help spread the
word. We know that the only
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way the work is going
to be finished is to do
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united, collaborative
efforts, networking
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together in a
common cause and that is to
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present Christ to the
world. As a youth pastor,
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as a teacher,
probably one of my greatest
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concerns here in
America is the culture of greed
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that we live in.
And especially the
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younger generation,
they are consumed with this
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notion and that
they've got to have it bigger,
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better and faster and
that's what the advertising
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agencies keep
promoting. When you take a young
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person from that
kind of a culture and you
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intentionally place him
in a very poor environment
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where there is a lot of
poverty and lot of great
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need something
really wonderful happens.
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And when the kids are
going I hear you know I
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really don't want to
go but my mom and dad are
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sending me but then
when they come back, they are
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so excited and found
out they were the ones that
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were actually baptized
you know. So, it's hard to
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go to a mission field
and work with the people and
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the children and see
the way that they're living
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and not be changed and
realize that you; God has
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really blessed you and
that you have so much to
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give and the young
people that come back,
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their lives are changed
I know I saw it in my own
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life, you know I was
born and raised an Seventh-
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Day Adventist but it
wasn't until I actually
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went and preached my
own series of meetings in
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Rwanda, in Africa
that the Adventist message
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went from my head to my heart.
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My wife Jackie Tucker
are both trained at the
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Lions Club eye clinic
down in Midland, Texas
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where all those
glasses that you throw away and
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at you know the
Wal-Mart or the stores where
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they collect these glasses,
those are all sorted and
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they are cleaned and
they're tagged as to the
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prescription and
organizations like the
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Quiet Hour, they give
us thousands of pairs of
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glasses every year
and so we go to these very
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remote parts of some
of these communities and
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we offer eye
clinics, free glass; free eye
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examinations and
then we'll give them free
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glasses. Well you have
100s of people like that
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that haven't been able
to read clearly in years but
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my wife is very gifted at
what she does in that, she
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shared this story of this
one little boy that came to
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the clinic and had very
poor eye sight. Couldn't
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even read the big letter
E in the bottom of the chart
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from fairly close
range, so he was probably
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legally blind. Well let's
face it, if you don't have a
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skill to be able to
read you are going to be
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handicapped going
through life and they
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went into the stock
room where we have all the
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glasses, trying to
find a very, very strong
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prescription for this
young man; couldn't find
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it, they went back
out reexamined his eyes
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again and my wife
blessed her heart she is a
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very spiritual
person. She gathered the team
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together and said we
need to pray, we can find
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a pair of glasses for this
little boy. I guess they have
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been searching every
bag, prescriptions, below and
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above what they
thought was required. My wife
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went back to the bag
that she knew the prescription
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should be in that
particular bag and
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there at the top, the
very top of that bag was a
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pair of child's glasses
in the exact prescription.
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That little boy went
out of there, you can just
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imagine if you're
blind and now you are able to
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see I mean he was
pointing out the leaves
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in the tree and he was
pointing out to his mother
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that you know that the
birds that were singing
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and look at this and
it was truly one of those
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experiences that I am
sure Jesus had many times
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when he you know he
restored the sight to the
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blind or he healed a
leper. You know we had that
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kind of a moment
that God who touched the
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eyes of the blind you
know 2000 years ago that
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God still performs
miracles in other ways
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and those are the
kind of experiences
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that just keep us
going. It's exciting to see lay
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people involved in
active evangelism and the
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precious people they
are bringing into the family
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of God. ASI and the
Quite Hour are committed
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to empowering lay people
to share the love of Christ
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and the good news of
his soon return. To learn
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more about the Quiet
Hour call 800-900-9021
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or visit www.thequiethour.org.
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I am Dan Houghton,
thanks for joining me today on
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ASI Video Magazine.
Come back next time for
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more stories of ASI
members sharing Christ
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in the market
place. May God be with you.
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